SF News Today's Murder Count --In Oakland, five people have been killed in the last 48 hours (from noon on Wednesday to early this morning). The one this morning is murder number 64 in Oakland. --In SF, they're
SF News Oh No, Ed Jew!: Garbage Confirming what we heard yesterday, quote-unquote "District 4" Supervisor Ed Jew, along with Michela Alioto-Pier and Jake McGoldrick, showed up for yesterday's committee hearing to find out who exactly took those 300 trash
SF News SFist Blotter A four-year-old boy drowned to death in the 2-foot deep section of the wave pool at Great America in Santa Clara yesterday. There were six lifeguards on duty at the time, but there
SF News Garbage In, Garbage Out Over in the East Bay, the city of Oakland's filed suit against Waste Management, the garbage company that's locked out the local workers for 11 days now, and is letting trash pile up
SF News The Bolt-Cutters Are Back Tents! Man, we'd love to have a tent across the street from the Palace Steak House. Twelve people were arrested as a group of about 80 protestors chanted anti-high end housing slogans. Fog
SF News Incommunicado: Noyes Uncovers Botched Rescue Tapes Anyway, our point with this old item? It seems Wyrsch turned his radio off -- possibly in an attempt not to scare said jumper -- which effectively cut off all possibly effective communication
SF News Oh No, Ed Jew!: Borderline YES!!!! Thank you, CUIP-SF, for passing along your YouTube clip of the guy singing his pro Ed Jew version of Madonna's Borderline at the public comment session of yesterday's Board of Supervisors meeting!
SF News A Raised Median On Octavia We're not absolutely positive that's going to solve the problem for good (and will it be difficult for bikers to negotiate? We have no idea because there is no way in this world
misc In Living Color The proposal calls for the building of a business park, retail stores, luxury hotel, and a movie/TV production studio. The idea of a theme park has been shelved which, sadly, takes away
SF News San Francisco Homicide Rates Up 20% This Year It's time for the San Francisco crime mid-year report card, and we're not doing so great -- homicide rates are up 20% from last year. The SFPD reports that drug-related homicides are up
SF News Oh No, Ed Jew!: Victory Tomorrow's report (up live now, which is why this post is going up when it is) is that Gavin Newsom said that he's considering options for getting Ed Jew out of office. We
SF News Oh No, Ed Jew!: Madonna Thanks to Sweet Melissa, watching the Board of Supes meeting today so we didn't have to (hey, did Michela Alioto-Pier clear her schedule out and make it in?), who reports the following from
SF News Schools, Airports, And Garbage Just some random news items on the wire: There was a three-alarm fire at Thurgood Marshall Alternative High in the Bayview this afternoon. School's out for the summer, so there weren't any students
Arts & Entertainment And Justice For All Upon arriving at the airport, Hetfield was detained and questioned but after explaining who he was and what he was there for, airport officials let him go. London, of course, has been a
SF News Michela Alioto-Pier Misses Another Meeting Bueller? Bueller? Bueller? That's right, everyone's favorite supervisorial class-cutter, District 2's Michela Alioto-Pier, missed yet another committee meeting on Monday. That's not really newsworthy in and of itself -- but what is newsworthy
SF News SFist Blotter Dang! A huge fight on Durant Avenue by Telegraph in Berkeley Sunday night -- around 50 people were involved and they had to close off the area for an hour. A 14-year-old was
SF News Political Junkie: Gavin's Back (Ow!) Oh, Chris Daly's going to have a with this one for his own blog -- the Chronicle Local News Blog gleefully reports that, at Sunday's Celebrity All-Star game at AT&T Park,
SF News Your Commute: Slowest Drives Bless the Chron's heart, they know kvetching about traffic is going to move a lot of papers on the newsstand -- so they go above the fold with their article about the twenty
Arts & Entertainment Chris Daly Has A Blog Man, we were reading the Chron on the plane out of San Francisco on July 4 for vacation, balling our fists in frustration over missing the stories on Ed Jew's "part-time lover" response
SF News Political Junkie: Costco Ross! Well, how surprised were we to see, nestled in among the articles about Kirkland brand disposable diapers (page 61, they're now selling them in 38-day packs) and tips on furniture-shopping at the warehouse
SF News Your Commute: MUNI Transformers A transformer explosion and subsequent electrical pole damage at San Jose and Ocean has rendered the following lines extremely delayed: the J, the 26 Valencia, the 36 Teresita, and the 49 Van Ness.
SF News Oh No, Ed Jew!: Moonbeam In other deadline-related Ed Jew news, the other operative date to watch out for is Monday Tuesday July 10, which is the cutoff date for a special election for the seat if Ed
SF News SFist Blotter Authorities are worried that the violent weekend is a harbinger for a bad July 4th. With 12 people dead (two more people were shot after the articles about 10 people killed went up)
SF News Your Commute: Fire Near The BART The fire started around 4:19 p.m. and spread to some eucalyptus trees, so they stopped train service. The firefighters are in the station putting out the flames, and a bus is
SF News Oh No, Ed Jew!: Donations It's been awhile since we had some Ed Jew news! Lying low, huh? So we stopped by edjew.net today to check out the reports about the District 4 supervisor's legal defense fund.
